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Why British universities should rethink selecting students by academic ability

  • Written by The Conversation
imageThe future hinges too much on this piece of paper. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

Britain’s university entrance system, in which students are selected based on their academic grades, is the main reason why efforts to widen access to higher education beyond the country’s upper and middle classes have had only modest success. In England,...

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